I’ve officially passed the halfway mark. It’s kind of weird, but anywho. Still got lots more to learn and possibly just enough time to learn it. 🙂
Livin la vida loca…
Hola todos!
This morning I went to see the physical therapist to help me with my shoulder issues. Apparently I’ve got a type of tendinitis and my muscles in my shoulder are overly tense/weak which means that the tendons of my shoulder are a little inflamed and unhappy. So basically I can’t lift anything for a week and I have to stretch it out and use ice and do some special exercises and then we’ll be doing some other things to treat it during the next 2 weeks. Basically it’s not a lot of fun, but I’m happy that it wasn’t something worse. Good news is that I get to start using a backpack instead of a shoulder bag which is great cuz I’m starting to feel lopsided. 🙂
El Correo…
I didn’t receive many photos, so I won’t send many photos either. (It’s probably not because I forgot to take them again) Patience is a virtue Jaja 😀
Calerbe is super amazing! He told his friend about the lessons he was receiving and brought him to church a couple of weeks ago. Then yesterday Donald (The friend) showed up to church all alone. (Calerbe was super tired from his work so he didn’t make it this week.)Â But we taught a lesson to Donald Saturday night and he really does seem to be a golden investigator.
9 Months
I’ve now finished half of my mission, timewise anyway. It’s a little weird cuz it feels like i got here yesterday and I’m going home tomorrow. I love you guys all a ton and want to be with you, but at the same time I still have so much to learn and do here. I’m grateful that I still have 9 months left. Sorry for the trunkiness. 🙂
Transfers
Every transfer that we have is 6 weeks. On the sixth week they call us Saturday night to tell us if we’re leaving or not and then on Tuesday we travel to new sectors. I’m staying in Temuco Cautin and Hna. Morante is going to Los Angeles with Hna. Gomez from Brazil. I’m going to be with another American, Hna. Ellis. She arrived with Hna. Morante.
Pure Craziness
Just so you all know Hna. Morante is my 7th companion and I’ve never had a companion that is so crazy. I mean that in a good way. I forgot to tell you last week, but 2 mondays ago she pierced my ears with a needle. We put some ice against my ear until I couldn’t feel it very well and then she just stuck that thing in there. It hurt a little bit, but not too bad. So now I’ve got earrings. 🙂 I’ll attach some photos down below.
Craziness
Heyo!
So this week was fun. We’re teaching a ton of Haitians and this friday we invited them to a family home evening with this member family where the 2 kids are return missionaries who’ve already got their fiances and everything. We brought 6 of our investigators. They’re all super cool and they shared a message about baptism leaving the invitation to pray and read the Book of Mormon to know if the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints really is the only church that has the power and authority of God. The spirit was so strong in that lesson and then we had 7 of our investigators in church on Sunday. It was amazing. I’ve never in my life seen so many investigators all together at once learning about the gospel and the members were super great and friendly and made them feel comfortable and at home even though they don’t speak Spanish very well.
Time
Hello all.
I gotta tell you I really kind of suck at using my time well on the computer because I have so many freaking things to do and only an hour to do it. But, oh well. I will be sending more photos to try and make up.
I want to give a small update this week. We are teaching a bunch of Haitians, because a ton a moving to Chile for new opportunities, but the majority don’t have any money and they don’t speak spanish. We have some spanish classes going at the church and we invite pretty much every Haitian that we see. I’ve honestly never known a more open people in all of my life. Within 2 seconds they’re willing to get baptized cuz they want to change their life for the better and get closer to God. We’re teaching a few in Spanish and English and trying to help them gain a testimony. It’s pretty great.
The City
So… my greatest fear has come to pass and I got moved to the city. I’m now serving in Temuco (Cautin is the name of my sector inside the city). Here we have a ward that’s trying to not be downgraded to a branch because at the moment about 20-30 people are attending regularly.
Cambios were yesterday because they wanted to send the missionaries who were finishing their mission home as quickly as possible. That’s why I’m writing today.
La Misión
This week we recommitted Nelly to not smoke and heart attacked her door with motivational stuff. She kept everything there and said it would help her to remember as she tries to leave the house to buy cigarettes cuz they never keep cigarettes in their house. We were going to cook them breakfast and bring them to church but they ended up taking Joaquin their 4 year old to the hospital the night before and they didn’t get to bed til really late (or really early not sure). They slept in until 12. We visited them in the afternoon though and Joaquin will be ok he just had a weird reaction from being too nervous. They gave him some medicine and he’s doing better. We’ll probably take them to church next week.